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North Korea Delivers Missile-Launch Blitz
May 20, 2013 | Delivery SystemsNorth Korea over a three-day period beginning on Saturday fired off what appeared to be six short-range missiles, Reuters reported.
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West Using Chemical Warfare Assertions to Justify Attack: Assad
Western powers have lobbed chemical warfare accusations at the Syrian government in an attempt to justify military intervention in the country's 2-year-old civil war, Deutsche Presse-Agentur on Saturday quoted Syrian President Bashar Assad as saying.
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State Department Upgrading Security at Diplomatic Sites After Benghazi, Kerry Says
May 20, 2013 | Chris Schneidmiller | TerrorismWASHINGTON – The Obama administration is taking new steps to heighten the security for diplomatic personnel around the world, Secretary of State John Kerry said on Monday.
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GOP Lawmaker Defends Proposal for East Coast Interceptor Site
May 20, 2013 | Diane Barnes | Missile DefenseWASHINGTON -- A well-placed Republican lawmaker on Monday doubled down on calls from within his party to build a new missile defense site on the U.S. East Coast, arguing that such a facility would augment the country's capacity to respond to potential long-range missile strikes from Iran or North ...
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New Iran Penalties Must be 'Decisive': France
France on Friday said Iran's intransigence in a years-old nuclear standoff requires stringent U.S. and European economic penalties capable of settling the dispute, Agence France-Presse reported
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Issa Subpoenas Ambassador Pickering to Testify on Benghazi Report
May 20, 2013 | Charles S. Clark | TerrorismWASHINGTON -- In response to the recent refusal of retired Ambassador Thomas Pickering to agree to testify in private on the independent review he chaired on the September 2012 deaths of four Americans at the U.S. diplomatic post in Benghazi, Libya, a key House chairman has hit him with a ...
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Government Biodefense Adviser Profited From Anthrax Drug Maker
A former U.S. Navy secretary promoted government acquisition of medical anthrax countermeasures while serving on the board of a biotechnology firm that received $334 million in funding from Washington for that type of drug, the Los Angeles Times reported on Sunday.
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U.K. Coroner Might Halt Litvinenko Probe
May 20, 2013 | Radiological IncidentsA British judge on Friday agreed to a government appeal to avoid public consideration of some information in his probe of the polonium 210 radioactive poisoning death of Russian dissident Alexander Litvinenko, Reuters reported.
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New South Korea-U.S. Nuclear Trade Talks Scheduled for June
The next round of U.S.-South Korean nuclear trade talks is scheduled for the first week of June in Seoul, the Yonhap News Agency reported.
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FBI Searches Apartment in Spokane Ricin Case
Authorities on Saturday searched an apartment in Spokane, Wash., as part of the ongoing probe of two letters found earlier in the week to be tainted with the biological toxin ricin, the Associated Press reported.
Quote of the Day
Former U.S. biodefense adviser Philip Russell, on ex-Navy Secretary Richard Danzig's push for U.S. government procurement of medical anthrax countermeasures while receiving money from a company that produced one such product.Holy smoke -- that was a horrible conflict of interest.
